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Patients and consumers are increasingly searching the Internet for medical and healthcare information. Using the criteria of evidence-based medicine the present study analyses the websites of Wikipedia and two major German statutory health insurances for content and presentation of patient information. 22 senior students of health sciences and education evaluated one topic each. In a first step, they...
Shared decision making relies on the exchange of information between the physician and the patient and the involvement of both patient and physician in making the decision. Informed shared decision making thus requires that patients and doctors understand the benefits and harms of different treatment options. This, however, is severely undermined by what we call collective statistical illiteracy....
Das Internet wird zunehmend zur Suche von medizinischen Informationen genutzt. In der vorliegenden Studie wurden die Internetseiten von Wikipedia und 2 großen deutschen gesetzlichen Krankenkassen nach Kriterien für evidenzbasierte Patienteninformationen in Bezug auf Inhalt und Präsentation analysiert. 22 Studierende der Gesundheitswissenschaften wählten je eine Fragestellung und erarbeiteten hierzu...
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